Brian Alfaro

@designbaa.bsky.social

Design Systems @Yahoo | Prev Design systems @ Washington Post | 3D club - Designer Developer Dad

Late night dev sessions get weird when the LLM starts tripping. 🫠 ​A reminder that the "magic" ✨ goes away once you realize it's just embeddings and calculated word associations. It’s not thinking; it’s just REALLY into adverbs. ​Hallucination like these got me into building game thewordspool.com

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Winning an eBay bid battle for Batwheels toys discontinued for my lil guy so we can play together with it is what really got me cheesing today. Today is particularly special for me and the anniversary of winning a battle with my mental health and smiling at the small things. Feeling grateful 🥲❣️

​Who decided this? 😩 ​❌ background-color: linear-gradient(...) ✅ background-image: linear-gradient(...) ​Forget shorthand..like how is a gradient technically an "image"?! 😆 Is it just to enforce a solid color fallback? ​Make it make sense. 👇 ​#CSS #WebDev #Frontend

Let's make 2026 the year to make web simple again. Not everything needs to be an app, sometimes its just idk a website. 🥳🥳

Stoyan Stefanov @stoyan.me · 7mo ago

Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 5/5: @infrequently.org investigates SPA usage patterns showing that users often trigger only ~1 soft navigation per page load. If the heavy upfront JS costs aren’t being amortized, what are SPA's performance benefits? calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/the-cur...

Was reviewing API props with the team and showed a doc using multi-color. They said multicolor (no dash) is better. I said, “That’s where I draw the line!" (because the dash… is a line.) I’ll see myself out.